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The Athletic FC Podcast

Weekend Preview: Resting Ronaldo, Mane Under The Radar + Set Piece-Savvy West Ham

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth, to preview Liverpool's trip to Old Trafford - could defeat really spell the end for United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? Plus, how 'set-piece kings' West Ham have become favourites for their London derby against Spurs, whether Phil Foden could end up with both the Player AND Young Player of the Year awards at the end of the season and how Aaron Ramsdale has softened the blow of Emi Martinez' Arsenal exit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Athletic. Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football

0:19.0

podcast sponsored by Bet 365. I'm Dan Vardel and every Friday we preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action alongside Bet 365 Steve Freeth,

0:33.0

Steve, how are you?

0:34.0

Really mischief, hell.

0:36.0

I bet you bet you never said that to a Villafan before?

0:38.0

No, I have a couple, a couple of,

0:40.0

a couple of, uh, a few quid.

0:42.0

Yeah, no, it's, Yeah, no, it's good to have you back and you've, you know, you've lost the odd game as well,

0:47.3

which is always sweet.

0:48.3

Yeah, I'm sure we will come on today.

0:50.3

It's good to be back.

0:52.0

And as usual, my co-host George Ellick is here as well

0:55.4

always busy George another busy week for you. So busy forever I had to postpone

1:00.3

the normal recording time by half an hour to fit in all my meetings but it's all good

1:05.3

so as I keep saying whenever I complain to my friends I'm busy they're like what talking about

1:09.4

football I'm like yes that is that is what is worse so it could be worse yeah

1:14.0

someone who is not going to be busy for the next few weeks I imagine he's gone to

1:17.8

Portugal is Steve Bruce Dave finally put out of his misery at Newcastle, relieved of his duties.

1:24.7

Who do you think is going to be next for Newcastle?

1:26.9

Because it's a bit of a weird appointment because we all know they've got money now,

1:30.0

but they're obviously near the lower echelons of the league and it kind of feels like they need someone who's got some experience of that so it's going to be a really interesting appointment.

1:38.0

Yes it is, clearly a load of names in the hat and I suppose if you're an agent of these type of

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